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Dec. 10, 2024 - The David Knight Show
09:26
A Real "Rover" from McGoohan's "The Prisoner"
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The government is doing the best that it can to make 1984 come true, to make Brave New World come true.
I mean, pretty much all of these dystopian novels, they've looked at them as a pattern, Gattaca, you name it.
But of course, one of the earliest movies, film type of things, although it was a TV show, was Patrick McGowan's The Prisoner.
And the village that he is, as a former spy, as a former secret agent man, he's kidnapped and sent to the village.
They want to know why he resigned and what does he know.
So they're analyzing him.
It's a prison.
It's a 15-minute city type of prison.
You've got little electric golf carts that you can go everywhere, but you don't own any cars.
And you can't get out of that city.
And one of the ways that they enforce that, of course, is with this thing they call Rover.
And so if you haven't seen the series, I'll just show this short little clip here to you.
Those of you who have seen the series will enjoy this.
This is the group of people there in the village, and you've got somebody who is trying to escape or do something, and they call out Rover on him.
They didn't settle for ages.
Now they wouldn't leave the world.
You mean you brought them around to your way of thinking?
They had a choice.
Wait!
Wait!
Like the vaccines Comes out of the water And it creases in size.
Turn back.
No!
Mom! Mom! Mom! Mom! Mom!
What was that?
That would be telling.
Yeah, that would be telling.
And now it's no longer science fiction.
Like I said, they're making everything that we've seen in these sci-fi things come to life.
Now the Chinese have essentially created Rover.
It's not soft-bodied like that, but it's perhaps an even greater threat.
And just as we would see in the Prisoner series, Rover would try to escape off the island, would come up out of the water, or you saw it there coming up out of the water fountain, materializes and then gets bigger and bigger, smothers people, whatever.
Well, this is what it looks like.
With China's real rover.
And all of this, folks, is real.
The only thing that I've changed about any of this is I've put the sound effects from the prisoner in there that rover makes.
Look at this.
Coming up out of the water.
And it's not being pulled along by a string like the TV show was.
Now it's chasing these perps, identifying them.
They try to defend themselves.
They smack it.
There you go.
Bat breaks.
Several of them surround this guy.
Look at this.
It shoots out a non-lethal weapon.
There it is in the water again.
Coming through the water.
Pretty amazing.
Going over this rough terrain.
They got this thing patrolling in any kind of terrain, patrolling with police officers in the city.
Oh, there's the four-legged robo-dog from Boston Dynamics, and then they show it rolling it over and crushing it.
Yeah.
Now, there they are on a real patrol.
There are the people there.
So what is this?
Is this thing for real?
Is this a PR stunt?
You know?
You always have to ask yourself that about China.
We did have people who were falling down in the street as if they were dying to sell the other things.
So anytime you see something like this, you have to ask yourself, What's really going on with this?
A lot of people taking pictures, thinking that it is something just for show.
So we'll see.
We'll see what happens with it.
But it's an AI-powered ball.
They should call it Rover.
Maybe they got the idea from that.
They say that it's got AI, so I guess that means that it can do anything and makes it real, right?
The article on The Sun calls it the cop ball.
I guess we could say this is a policeman's other ball.
It goes, they say, here's the specs for the RTG. It goes up to 22 miles per hour.
It weighs 125 kilograms, which is like 275 pounds.
It's used catching criminals.
It has all-terrain ability.
It can withstand four tons of pressure.
And it's got a lot of different weapons.
It's got net guns, it's got tear gas, sprayers, grenades, loudspeakers, and something called wave dispersal devices, which I'm not sure what that is.
I didn't look that up.
I don't know if that is.
But despite people thinking that it was a bizarre marketing stunt, and it might really, you know, it might really be.
Who knows?
We have seen a lot of really crazy stuff, though.
I showed you, I didn't put the clip in the deck today, but I showed you the clip.
Of their all-terrain robot that had four legs, but on the end of each of the legs was wheels.
And we saw that thing on four.
We saw it on two wheels.
We saw it climbing stuff, right?
You can lock those wheels and then use it to stand and to climb things.
So, yeah, we're seeing some really crazy stuff being done right now.
The ball beast is able to operate both on land and in water.
It can withstand a whopping four tons of impact, as I said.
Weighs 275 pounds.
Equipped with non-fatal police gear like net guns, tear gas sprayers, grenades, loudspeakers, sound wave dispersal devices.
Able to withstand water, rough terrain, mud, but it is also being shown patrolling through cities.
So that it can identify and stop criminals due to its AI-powered software.
It has facial recognition software, able to easily detect criminals known to the police.
It can then either call other robots, or it can call human law enforcement as backup.
Or it can just solve the issue itself.
Kind of like Rover.
Sometimes rubber was dispatched by the guys in central command or whatever.
Sometimes it assessed the threat itself.
The showcasing video shows the ball chasing after suspects, knocking on the ground, even firing a built-in net gun.
Meanwhile, footage captured by pedestrians show the obedient ball rolling down the street accompanied by law enforcement.
China has been rolling out a lot of these abominations.
There's a company called Deep Robotics.
They have humanoid robots.
That was the one that had the wheels.
And I showed you how fast and agile that thing was.
It truly was amazing.
And there are other things in the works as well.
There's a humanoid robot, you know, with arms, legs, and a torso that doesn't have a face, kind of like Elon Musk likes to do it.
But it also mirrors human anatomy.
It's got over 200 quote-unquote bones and a synthetic breathing system.
The robot is called Clone Alpha, described as a musculoskeletal android, meaning that it has synthetic organs, artificial muscles, ligaments instead of traditional robotic components.
And so we look at this type of thing, and our big mistake, as I've said over and over again, this might be a joke, it might be a marketing ploy or whatever, but it might be real.
Our big mistake that we make is to overestimate the morality of the people who are developing these things, the people who govern us.
And the other big mistake that we make is to underestimate their technological capability.
Right, boys and girls.
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